Life is 'higher after photo voltaic': Harnessing daylight offers India's salt farmers freedom and revenue

[ad_1] Beneath a punishing noon solar, Devabhai Sawadiya slowly rakes the salt pan that has been in his household for generations. It is quiet round him, aside from the sweeping motions of his salt broom and the smooth, clinking sound of dishes being washed close by.

That is a brand new growth. For years, there was loud, sputtering diesel machines working consistently to pump out the salty brine caught underground, which the farmers then unfold out into the sq. fields to evaporate and produce salt crystals.

Now, it is photo voltaic panels that dot the huge arid desert, powering the pumps.

The change to harnessing the facility of the numerous hours of daylight that shine on the Kutch district of India's western Gujarat state has dramatically modified Sawadiya's life.

"We lastly make a revenue due to photo voltaic, after years of toiling," the 59-year-old farmer informed CBC Information.

"Earlier than [we got] photo voltaic panels, there was barely sufficient cash to eat and never a rupee extra."

<img loading="lazy" alt="A person holds a handful of salt crystals." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550813.1748961104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550813.1748961104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550813.1748961104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550813.1748961104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550813.1748961104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550813.1748961104!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Sawadiya holds salt harvested from the marshes. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) <img loading="lazy" alt="A person seated on a beach washes pots with a child in the foreground." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550818.1748961413!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/grandson-devabhai-with-his-grandmother.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550818.1748961413!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/grandson-devabhai-with-his-grandmother.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550818.1748961413!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/grandson-devabhai-with-his-grandmother.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550818.1748961413!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/grandson-devabhai-with-his-grandmother.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550818.1748961413!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/grandson-devabhai-with-his-grandmother.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550818.1748961413!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/grandson-devabhai-with-his-grandmother.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Jassiben Sawadiya washes pots whereas grandson Kushti performs close to the salt pan. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) The nomadic salt farmers, referred to as agariyas, migrate from their villages throughout the state of Gujarat to the Little Rann of Kutch desert every fall as quickly because the monsoon rains recede and camp out in rickety tarpaulin tents close to the salt marshes for the eight-month harvesting season.

They do not personal the marshland they've been working for generations to make the salt that India, the third-largest salt producer on the planet, wants.

It is authorities land that they return to yearly to assist produce round 30 per cent of India's salt discovered inland, which is usually desk salt.

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Photo voltaic panels are multiplying throughout western India's salt plains, and farmers inform CBC’s South Asia correspondent Salimah Shivji the know-how has utterly modified their lives. Till they obtained assist to purchase the photo voltaic panels and set up them beside their salt pans, the farmers would begin every season in debt, pressured to borrow closely from salt merchants so they might purchase the 15 or so barrels of diesel that their outdated pumps required.

The borrowed prices may go as much as 300,000 Indian rupees, or almost $5,000 Cdn, a season.

"We'd return with luggage stuffed with salt, however had been left with nothing — not sufficient cash," Sawadiya stated.

Issues with diesel The fixed smoke and toxins from the diesel made them "sick and brought about so many issues," he added. His fingers had been additionally continuously stained black from having to fiddle with the machines.

Sawadiya's two photo voltaic panels now have a first-rate place subsequent to the household's tent, the place his younger grandson, Kushti, is taking part in. There's nonetheless one diesel pump that's solely used as a backup at night time or when it is cloudy.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A person stands near an old machine." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550872.1748969406!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-standing-near-diesel-machine-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550872.1748969406!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-standing-near-diesel-machine-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550872.1748969406!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-standing-near-diesel-machine-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550872.1748969406!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-standing-near-diesel-machine-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550872.1748969406!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-standing-near-diesel-machine-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550872.1748969406!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-standing-near-diesel-machine-jpg.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Sawadiya stands close to an outdated diesel machine. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) <img loading="lazy" alt="A person pulls a large rake through shallow water." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550817.1748961283!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya-a-raking-field.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550817.1748961283!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya-a-raking-field.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550817.1748961283!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya-a-raking-field.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550817.1748961283!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya-a-raking-field.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550817.1748961283!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya-a-raking-field.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550817.1748961283!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/devabhai-sawadiya-a-raking-field.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Sawadiya rakes a salt subject. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) "It is a reduction for us that the smoke has stopped," stated Sawadiya's spouse, Jassiben Sawadiya.

"Life has gotten higher after photo voltaic."

The household was in a position to construct a brand new home of their village and pay for his or her son's wedding ceremony due to the a number of hundreds of {dollars} they're now saving every year with out the necessity to purchase diesel gasoline.

There's freedom as a result of "we do not have to borrow cash from anybody else," Jassiben Sawadiya stated.

Hefty authorities subsidy Many of the almost 5,000 agariya households who work within the salt desert have taken benefit of a giant subsidy from each the Gujarat state and federal governments that coated 80 per cent of the price of one photo voltaic panel.

The initiative matches neatly into India's push to speculate closely in renewable power, whereas slowly making an attempt to wean the nation of its dependence on coal.

The South Asian nation nonetheless is dependent upon coal — the dirtiest of fossil fuels — for greater than 70 per cent of the facility it generates.

<img loading="lazy" alt="Three people pull a cart through shallow water with piles of a white substance nearby." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7551084.1748971669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/traditional-salt-cultivation.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7551084.1748971669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/traditional-salt-cultivation.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7551084.1748971669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/traditional-salt-cultivation.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7551084.1748971669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/traditional-salt-cultivation.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7551084.1748971669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/traditional-salt-cultivation.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7551084.1748971669!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/traditional-salt-cultivation.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> The marshlands of the Little Rann of Kutch desert produce round 30 per cent of India's salt that's discovered inland. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) <img loading="lazy" alt="A person holding a pot walks toward a barrel, with tents in the background and a low table with pots in the foreground." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550862.1748963594!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/india-s-salt-farmers.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550862.1748963594!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/india-s-salt-farmers.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550862.1748963594!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/india-s-salt-farmers.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550862.1748963594!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/india-s-salt-farmers.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550862.1748963594!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/india-s-salt-farmers.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550862.1748963594!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/india-s-salt-farmers.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> India's salt farmers, or agariyas, transfer to the desert for months to reap the salt. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) Officers have additionally been fast to argue that India, as a growing nation, is nicely inside its rights to maintain authorizing coal-fired energy vegetation to open, even because it additionally prioritizes clear power.

Nonetheless, India's photo voltaic power sector is rising shortly, with put in photo voltaic capability now larger than 108 gigawatts, in line with the federal government's press bureau. It sat at lower than three gigawatts a decade in the past.

'The output is excellent' The nation can be centered on constructing large-scale photo voltaic farms, clusters of hundreds of thousands of panels in rows and columns that produce clear energy.

"With photo voltaic, the farmers' bills are near zero and the output is excellent," stated Bharatbhai Somera, who has volunteered for years with native NGO Agariya Heet-Rakshak Manch, which advocates for the salt farming group.

He grew up in an agariya household within the salt desert and watched his father work consistently for little acquire.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A person stands in a desert. " srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550913.1748965235!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ngo-social-worker-bharatbhai-somera-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550913.1748965235!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ngo-social-worker-bharatbhai-somera-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550913.1748965235!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ngo-social-worker-bharatbhai-somera-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550913.1748965235!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ngo-social-worker-bharatbhai-somera-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550913.1748965235!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ngo-social-worker-bharatbhai-somera-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550913.1748965235!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/ngo-social-worker-bharatbhai-somera-jpg.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Social employee Bharatbhai Somera says farmers' bills are 'near zero' with photo voltaic. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) The photo voltaic panels within the Little Rann of Kutch, and the cash they now save, permit the farmers to increase the harvesting season, which suggests the salt they produce is best high quality as a result of it has extra time to crystallize.

Shifting to renewable power has additionally repaired group bonds.

"With diesel, the farmers needed to consistently regulate the machine 24 hours a day," Somera stated. If there was a household perform, the agariyas must skip it.

"Now photo voltaic works by itself they usually can go see their household and attend weddings."

Subsidy impression stays However regardless that the advantages had been apparent to Somera and his colleagues, he stated it took quite a few demonstrations and quite a lot of convincing to "let the thought sink in" with authorities officers earlier than the subsidy was authorised.

It lasted for 5 years, however the subsidy is now not being supplied, regardless that the large impression it had stays.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A person looks toward the camera." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550833.1748961841!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/pankti-jog-agariya-ngo.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550833.1748961841!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/pankti-jog-agariya-ngo.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550833.1748961841!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/pankti-jog-agariya-ngo.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550833.1748961841!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/pankti-jog-agariya-ngo.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550833.1748961841!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/pankti-jog-agariya-ngo.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550833.1748961841!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/pankti-jog-agariya-ngo.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Pankti Jog, program director for the group group Agariya Heet-Rakshak Manch, says salt farmers would profit from help in case their photo voltaic panels break down. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) "All the loop of exploitation and poverty which has been happening for generations, [the agariyas] can break it in two to a few years," stated Pankti Jog, who's a program director with Agariya Heet-Rakshak Manch.

She stated many of the households now have a minimum of one photo voltaic panel, however with the subsidy gone, a system of help for insurance coverage, in case the panel breaks down or will get worn out, would assist many of the farmers.

Life in isolation Life within the huge arid desert surrounded by salt marshes remains to be very tough, with an acute sense of isolation.

There are not any medical clinics or household docs and kids go to high school in deserted buses, with their motors eliminated, parked haphazardly in the midst of the sunburnt panorama.

On one spring afternoon, a dozen kids packed into one of many buses, sitting at small desks within the transformed inside of the car, with a number of of the older children main a vocabulary examine whereas ready for the trainer to reach.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A painted bus sits in a desert." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550847.1748962664!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/abandoned-bux.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550847.1748962664!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/abandoned-bux.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550847.1748962664!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/abandoned-bux.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550847.1748962664!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/abandoned-bux.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550847.1748962664!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/abandoned-bux.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550847.1748962664!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/abandoned-bux.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Kids go to high school in deserted buses parked haphazardly within the Little Rann of Kutch desert. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) <img loading="lazy" alt="A teacher stands in front of a blackboard talking to students seated on the floor inside a bus." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550852.1748962861!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/school-inside-teacher-in-front-of-students-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550852.1748962861!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/school-inside-teacher-in-front-of-students-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550852.1748962861!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/school-inside-teacher-in-front-of-students-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550852.1748962861!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/school-inside-teacher-in-front-of-students-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550852.1748962861!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/school-inside-teacher-in-front-of-students-jpg.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550852.1748962861!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/school-inside-teacher-in-front-of-students-jpg.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Kids take their classes contained in the bus. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) There is a determined want for extra alternatives amongst most of the salt farmers, and photo voltaic is offering a few of the reply.

Jerabhai Dhamecha, 34, has three daughters and one son, all in elementary and center faculty.

As he raked his massive salt pan, gathering the salt crystals to 1 aspect, he listed what his photo voltaic panels have introduced the household — a brand new brick home of their village, a brand new tractor, a motorbike.

'My grandfather did not have something' Earlier than photo voltaic power modified all the things, "we could not even purchase a bicycle," stated Dhamecha, 34.

"My grandfather did not have something. They used to hold water and convey it [to the fields] on foot."

He is now making about 60 per cent extra revenue, with out the price of diesel weighing him down.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A person drags a large rake through shallow water." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550826.1748961579!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jerabhai-dhamecha.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550826.1748961579!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jerabhai-dhamecha.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550826.1748961579!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jerabhai-dhamecha.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550826.1748961579!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jerabhai-dhamecha.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550826.1748961579!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jerabhai-dhamecha.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550826.1748961579!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/jerabhai-dhamecha.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Jerabhai Dhamecha says the financial savings from utilizing photo voltaic panels have allowed him to construct a brand new home for his spouse and 4 kids. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) A fellow agariya chimed in with the same thought, as he eagerly demonstrated how his solar-powered water pump labored.

Kalubhai Surela, 58, in contrast the panels to having an additional son or to having his father, lengthy useless, return to assist the household earn a wholly new wage.

<img loading="lazy" alt="A person stands in front of a solar panel." srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550829.1748961678!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kalubhai-surela.JPG?im=Resize%3D300 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550829.1748961678!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kalubhai-surela.JPG?im=Resize%3D460 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550829.1748961678!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kalubhai-surela.JPG?im=Resize%3D620 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550829.1748961678!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kalubhai-surela.JPG?im=Resize%3D780 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550829.1748961678!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kalubhai-surela.JPG?im=Resize%3D1180 1180w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7550829.1748961678!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_1180/kalubhai-surela.JPG?im=" style="aspect-ratio:1.779788838612368" data-cy="image-img"/> Kalubhai Surela considers his photo voltaic panel like a second son, working to avoid wasting the household a number of hundreds of {dollars} a 12 months. (Salimah Shivji/CBC) "Our grandfathers felt nothing however unhappiness on this desert. Their lives had been a battle," Surela stated.

"However now, after photo voltaic power, there may be pure pleasure right here."

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